Creation and parliamentary elections The creation of Spolu was announced on 17 November 2017, by former under-secretary of
Sieť Miroslav Beblavý, who left the party in protest of its decision to join the
Smer-led government, and former under-secretary of liberal
SaS Jozef Mihál. The party presented itself as a centre-right, pro-European party focusing on a modern economy, accessible healthcare and a functional educational system. The Founding Council of Spolu consisted of independent MPs of the
National Council of the Slovak Republic and former members of Sieť, SaS and
OĽaNO:
Oto Žarnay,
Jozef Mihál,
Simona Petrík, Viera Dubačová,
Miroslav Beblavý, Katarína Macháčková and lawyer Pavel Nechala of
Transparency International. The party's founding congress was held on 14 April 2018 in
Poprad. Miroslav Beblavý was elected as its leader. Katarína Macháčková and Jozef Mihál were elected as deputy leaders, with the third deputy leader being Erik Baláž, founder of environmentalist campaign
We are the forest, and recipient of the White Crow 2017 award for the fight against corruption. In the
2020 Slovak parliamentary election, Spolu joined the
socially liberal party
Progressive Slovakia with which they created a coalition but narrowly failed to get into the parliament due to its low popularity.
Crisis of Heger's Cabinet After the crisis of
Cabinet of Eduard Heger in 2023, then-leader of the party
Miroslav Kollár met former prime minister of Slovakia
Mikuláš Dzurinda, with whom he planned to co-operate during the following parliamentary elections. Dzurinda had originally planned to create his own liberal-conservative political force "The Blues – European People's Party", but the announcement of early elections changed his plans. At a press conference, Dzurinda presented his project, with which he wants to fight "for a European Slovakia", wants to be "a reasonable alternative to the mafia and chaos" and "for a modern and educated Slovakia". He called the Blue Coalition his new political home. Dzurinda's press conference was attended by former members of the
SDKÚ-DS and leader of the SPOLU party Miroslav Kollár. Both the leader of
ODS and the leader of
Democrats of Slovakia, minor centre-right parties which cooperated with SPOLU, announced their support for the Blue Coalition. Due to disagreements with Kollár, Dzurinda left the project shortly after and founded his own
The Blues – European Slovakia party. Then-Prime Minister of Slovakia
Eduard Heger assumed the leadership of the party which was renamed to
Demokrati () The Democrats promoted a petition to hold a
referendum on life payments for ex-leaders. ==Criticism==